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Nov 3, 2026
John HaslbauerHOST
And so at this price, I'm not going to do it, but I can understand defending champion coming off a top five last week.
John HaslbauerHOST
Good pedigree, like a top five OWGR guy in this field.
John HaslbauerHOST
I get that.
John HaslbauerHOST
I can also understand people betting Jackson Coven this week.
Ben ColeyHOST
He's coaching in Prague.
Ben ColeyHOST
He did, to his credit... play his first OWGR-sanctioned event in two years this summer, the Polish Golf Open, which he is a past champion of.
Ben ColeyHOST
And he finished 16th on the Pro Golf Tour.
Ben ColeyHOST
And I think that says a lot about his ability because he's not playing, basically.
Liver and OnionsHOST
I would put him more towards likely to stay.
Liver and OnionsHOST
I just don't know if Michael Assasso is going to go and play a full Asian tour, hotel plan or tour when a live golf type tour is there for him where he can make more money, earn more OWGR points and so forth.
Liver and OnionsHOST
So... nothing uh outstanding there john catlin and the reserves was in the hotel planner tour playoffs just narrowly missed out on getting a full-time dp world tour card so now he'll get some very conditional basic status uh he does have full two tour status on asian tour the hotel planner tour uh he's a guy in an interview at the event this week was asked about live and basically just said, I don't know, like I hear things, I don't know what's going on.
Liver and OnionsHOST
Um, is that true? Yes.
BenHOST
It's, it's good to see.
BenHOST
And I've, I have, I have said a few times that I think that the race to Dubai does give slightly too many points to majors because it's, the waiting is just a little bit too high because you, you get that, you get that, high rating carrying through into your OWGR you don't need it carrying through to the DB World Tour's own ranking system yeah that's a good point
JayHOST
Yeah, I mean, look, we got to give Eugenio full credit.
JayHOST
He's played 29 events on the European Tour this year.
JayHOST
That's a lot of golf tournaments.
JayHOST
He's played really well.
JayHOST
He's up to 39th in the OWGR, which is the highest that he's ever been in his career.
JayHOST
Congratulations to him.
Todd SchusterHOST
And then in concert with all this is also like right around the same time that, you know, again, this is three days before COVID hits, but like, you know, Jay gets on and he announces the new media deal and all of that.
Todd SchusterHOST
But there were all sorts of poison pills in that if enough people you know, have enough top players left in the OWGR, you know, strength of field stuff dip below a certain threshold that then that would give NBC, CBS, Golf Channel a way out of the TV deal and the whole house of cards would crumble.
D.J. PiehowskiHOST
Which... bears repeating all of this also going on you know what else is about to happen coven right like during the players that's right during that play yeah that press con or not even press conference the appearance on cnbc or whatever it was it's just like all the red lights are flashing all around them and every market is just tanking and they're just pushing through like whoever go
Neil SchusterHOST
bears touching all the microphones yeah
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D.J. PiehowskiHOST
I specifically need to watch any of these guys play.
Chris SolomonHOST
Well, it's worth, like, they got nine of those 25 guys eventually go to live.
Chris SolomonHOST
And not all at once, but, like, the OWGR looks different by the time these guys go to live.
Chris SolomonHOST
Like, the next year, really.
Graeme McDowellGUEST
You know, the majors are the most important events in the world.
Graeme McDowellGUEST
We talked about, you know, OWGR and the pathways and Liv's obviously, you know, it's been kind of an uphill battle a little bit the last three or four years, but...
Graeme McDowellGUEST
You know, I missed the majors and I don't think I really understood how much I missed them until I managed to qualify for Shinnecock and the excitement levels are starting to crank up, you know, because it's nice to earn that spot.
Graeme McDowellGUEST
Feel like, you know, that no one, you know, I'm going to be there fair and square.
Wes ReynoldsHOST
He's locked into the first two signature events next season.
Wes ReynoldsHOST
He's 54 in the OWGR, so... he's very close to getting like a master's invitation with all that.
Wes ReynoldsHOST
And I think he gets one anyway because he won a PGA Tour event.
Wes ReynoldsHOST
But just the motivation here, I think you got to look at that FedEx Cup fall, that 51 to 60 for the signature events, the first two next spring.
Ben HookHOST
Golf fans in general are going to tolerate what's going to be a fairly watered-down version.
Ben HookHOST
The other thing I'd keep an eye out, Tom, and this is probably the unwritten part of it, is what the OWGR, the World Rankings System, does because they've shed so many big-name players, their strength of fuel has absolutely plummeted.
Ben HookHOST
They had an obligation to relegate players.
Ben HookHOST
They're going to have to retain a lot of the relegated players to get their field up to a size that is actually worthy of playing a tournament.
Ben HookHOST
It's going to be a real challenge for them to retain any sense of meaningful involvement with the OWGR.
Ben HookHOST
If they only go to 10 events, if there's only 25 to 30 players, all of these things would rule them out of OWGR points altogether.
Ben HookHOST
And on top of not being eligible to play on the DP World Tour or the PGA Tour, which is financially viable, if these guys are back to not receiving OWGR points, they are in an absolute black hole.
Ben HookHOST
And I can understand why...
Sam HarropHOST
So yeah, Argentine, you know, I'm sure people will know him very well.
Sam HarropHOST
I genuinely do not know what he's been up to the last few years, but he's only played one OWGR sanctioned event since the start of 2024, which was the 93 Abierto del Centro in Argentina, where he missed the cut by seven.
Sam HarropHOST
But yeah, he's 45 years old.
Sam HarropHOST
So, you know, he's in the twilight of his career.
JackHOST
He basically ended the year with some of the best approach play and some really good driving, and then statistically one of the worst putting for a guy of that caliber.
JackHOST
He's in the top 30 of the OWGR, and he's got probably the 30th or 29th best putting of the top 30 guys, let's call Spain here.
JackHOST
I know for a fact that he probably went August 24th when that tournament finished and went to a PGA Superstore Golf Galaxy, et cetera, et cetera.
JackHOST
Obviously, no, he didn't.
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